--- title: In "She quickly ate the green apple", green is the adjective (it des… — Grammar puzzles, part one · tree and pragmatics description: In "She quickly ate the green apple", green is the adjective (it describes the apple) and quickly is the adverb (it says how she ate). Who acts: cat, green. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cat, green), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson:8 # text = In "She quickly ate the green apple", green is the adjective (it describes the apple) and quickly is the adverb (it says how she ate). # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson # annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 5 mark _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=5:mark|HaikuPos=SCONJ:IN:_ 2 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ _ 3 She she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 5 nsubj _ _ 4 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 5 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 7 green green ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 8 amod _ _ 8 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 11 green green NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj _ _ 12 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 adjective adjective NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 parataxis _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 16 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 17 nsubj _ _ 17 describes describe VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 18 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 19 det _ _ 19 apple apple NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 obj _ _ 20 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 17 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 22 quickly quickly ADV RB _ 5 advmod _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 adverb adverb NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 26 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 28 punct _ _ 27 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 28 nsubj _ _ 28 says say VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 29 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 31 advmod _ _ 30 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 31 ate eat VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 28 ccomp _ _ 32 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=31:punct 33 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: none - teacher: changed voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **eat** *in a quote* | past | cat | the green apple | | | | quickly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **is a** | present | green | the adjective | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **describe** | present | green | the apple | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent apple=Theme | | 4 | **is** | present | | | | | | quickly *property* | tree rules | | 5 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | green | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 6 | **eat** | past | cat | | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree. **Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:language:011-grammar-puzzles-part-one.lesson:8`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Grammar puzzles, part one, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/7/) - next →: [Grammar puzzles, part one, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/11-grammar-puzzles-part-one/)